Poetry 16:10 In a Station of the Metro ~ Ezra Pound-This apparition of these faces in the crowd; Petals on a wet, black bough. Child ~ Sylvia Plath Your clear eye is the one absolutely beautiful thing I want to fill it with color and ducks, The zoo of the new Whose name you meditate – April snowdrop, Indian pipe, Little Stalk without wrinkle, Pool in which images Should be grand and classical, Not this troublous

This preview
has intentionally blurred sections.
Sign up to view the full version.

16:10 “The spontaneous overflow of powerful feeling.” “Emotion recollected in tranquility.” ~ Wordsworth o Wordsworth and Coleridge ~ 1798 • Tried to move away from the diction that defined their day. • He tries to use the language the people actually use. o Romanticism (1770 – 1850) • The Sublime o The beauty and frightfulness of nature o “Fostered alike by beauty and by fear”

This preview
has intentionally blurred sections.
Sign up to view the full version.